Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Family:
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
Description:
Description - Twining vines or shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous. Flowers bisexual or pistillate, 5-merous, actinomorphic, produced in axillary racemes. Calyx 5-lobate; corolla infundibuliform or campanulate, with reflexed or expanded lobes; stamens 5; ovary inferior, of two carpels, each carpel with a pendulous ovule, the style filiform. Fruit a flattened berry with two pyrenes. A neotropical genus of approximately 20 species.
Description - Twining vines or shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous. Flowers bisexual or pistillate, 5-merous, actinomorphic, produced in axillary racemes. Calyx 5-lobate; corolla infundibuliform or campanulate, with reflexed or expanded lobes; stamens 5; ovary inferior, of two carpels, each carpel with a pendulous ovule, the style filiform. Fruit a flattened berry with two pyrenes. A neotropical genus of approximately 20 species.